Ludwiq ottmar franks



fl LUDWIG OTTM'AR FR ME," or ALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

1 Letters Pawnziv.105,7o2, dated Julgj26,1870.

CHAMELEON wHmme-IG.

I fhosohed ule referred to in these Letters Paton; and making part of theame.

To all whom-it may ooi'wrfn: 1

Be itknown that I, LUDWIG OTTMAR Emxxmof Baltimore-yin the county of Baltimore and. State 'of .ll/Iarylnnil, have in vented a new and im proved Chaineleon'Whirligig; and I do'herebydechire tlie"'follo\r-" .jiug'to' be a full,'eleor, and exaot'description ofthe sanie,reference being had to the accompanying drzuw ing limiting apart of this'specificotiomkin whichv Figure} is a. plan vie rofi-the whirligi-g complete;

-Figui'e 2 is aplan view of the colored .siilo of one l oil'lthe two disks oil which. the Whirligig is ,rn'ade;

5 Figure 3'is a diametriealtransverse section or figs! v Figure 4 iso plan, of one of theextinghishers; and i;,ure 5 iso plan of one of the recessed circular {'"pla'tes at each side of the complete-toy, through which the eyelets pass thatv connect the disks;

This invention consists of two metallic ilislgs, placed together, so that their peripheries coincide mul'eon- 1 neoteil so as to forms Whirligig; by means of eyelets r y passingfgthrough embossed eiienlar plates; placed one i at each side of the Whirligig and centrally thezeofi.

'the'eyelets forming passages through which are led the strings, from the "alternate twisting and untwisting of pvhl'eh'the toy receives motion, the outer sides of the whirligigbeing"each divideglinto three or more 1 sections hounded by radial'llnes, the sections being composed ofeondentfrie arcs, of different colors, the

arrangementoi' which in each sectionis different; and

there being black extinguishenplates pivoted upon the embossed circular plates a-ihresaid, ofitside the colored sections, soitl'extinghishers being recessed, so as to show. a partof the colored arcs at a time, and

being so loosely attfiaghd that they constontly change I e \rhirli'gi'g revolres, and expose their positions as t new armngemeutsof colors; which bear the appearauceofirings: I ;In the drawing were the disks. vbfed, fig. 2, the porti-colored sections.

, e,-the embossed circular plates. r iigil, the eyelets, by which the embossed col-cu lar plates ore fastened to the outsides oi" the disks a.

.- 7:, the strings. -r y 4 v I r ifhiittons oi; the ends of the strings, for conveniencein hohliiig'.

k, the, reeessed e tinguish rs. The lzrtterm'eioosely hung upon the bossesrot' the plates 0. l

Them-cs, which areseen through the recesses in theextingzzishers are apparently prolonged into cir- (:les when the toy revolves; and, as the extinguishers are constantly changing their positions, fresh combinations ofrings are ever appearing Having thus desorihedmy invention,

r tors Patten t, I s I j 11. The eoinhinationfof the peril-colored whirligig a a, with the recessed extinguishers k, in the manner and for the purpose speeifiedr extingnishers k and embossed circular plate 0, substantially in the mimiwlf and for the purpose specified.

me this 21st day of J une A. D. 18:70.

-Witnesses:

Sonor; O. K'EMON,

Geo. E; BROWN.

What I olnim as newyandvdesire to secureby Let-' 2. The combination of the-Whirligig out with the r The ahovespeoillea-t-ion of my invention signed by' :mmwro OTTMAR FRANKIE. v 

